Volume 77, Issue 19 sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, February 22, 2013
News
Absences plagued a young chess team, but hopes for rebuilt squad are high. Page 2
Year-end checkmates
Opinion
What’s in the craft of writing? Web editor Mitch Mackowiak offers his thought of the week. Page 4
Twisting words
Editor in chief John Webb reflects on the value of braving the weather for outdoor lunch. Page 4
Chilly fingers
Sports
Despite qualifying four for the State tour-nament, the SLUH wrestling team fell far short of the podium. Page 3
No hardware for wrestlers
Reporter Nick Kimble sat down with SLUH’s senior Wa-La-Wa line to discuss their success and the team’s State pros-pects. Page 3
Wa-La-Wa
Prep News
BY Jack KiehlSTAFF
St. Louis U. High’s third Mis-sion Week will once again be
filled with fun events and activi-ties, themed dress down days, and fundraisers for various causes.
Mission Week kicks off on Sunday with a dodgeball tour-nament. Monday will be a Mass Schedule day as Jim Keady will present “Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice” to the school in the Si Commons. Keady, founder of Team Sweat, has dedicated his life to speak out against the social injustice of un-fair trade.
Tuesday there will once again be a school-wide game of musical chairs during Activity Period, with the winner receiving a STUCO-made Golden Chair. Wednesday during Activity Period there will be a teacher game of dodgeball and Thursday will be the Father-Son Pancake Breakfast, starting at
Mission Week starts Monday
BY Danny Schneller reporter
Eight years after his first vis-it, Jim Keady will return
to St. Louis U. High next week to give a presentation about sweatshop labor. Keady is be-ing featured prominently as part of this year’s Mission Week. The push to bring Keady back to SLUH began last year af-ter a group of students heard him speak at the Ignatian Teach-in in November of 2011.
“The Pax Christi students who went to the Teach-In we’re re-ally moved by him, so they wanted to bring him back to SLUH to talk about the issue of sweatshops,” said Pax Christi moderator Rob Garavaglia. “We kind of decided that it would be really cool to have him speak to the whole school.” Before founding his orga-nization, Team Sweat, Keady was an assistant soccer coach at
St. John’s University. His team was largely sponsored by Nike. “He started researching Nike’s business practices when he was taking a Catholic Social Teach-ing class, and that kind of stirred everything up,” said Garavaglia. Shortly thereafter, St. John’s nego-tiated a $3.5 million athletic con-tract with Nike, which required Keady and all of the other coaches to endorse Nike. Keady refused and then was forced to resign.
Keady founded an organi-zation called Team Sweat. Ac-cording to their website, Team Sweat is “an international co-alition of consumers, inves-tors, and workers committed to ending the injustices in Nike’s sweatshops around the world.” Keady has even lived with Nike factory workers in In-donesia for a month to get a first-hand experience of working in a Nike factory.
BY Brian DuganSPORTS EDITOR
It’s been six years since the Jr. Bills (14-12, 2-6) last won a
basketball contest against CBC, a 63-47 victory on Jan. 19, 2007. In those six years, CBC has con-sistently been competitive in the MCC, while SLUH has consis-tently been near the cellar of the conference. In fact, it’s been five years since SLUH last won mul-tiple MCC games in one season.
But on Senior Night Friday night, the Jr. Bills dominated No.
5 CBC for a 56-48 win, just the second regular season MCC win for SLUH at the four-year-old Danis Field House.
Before the game, seniors Zach Greiner and Brendan Be-ment were honored at center court. Both players were in the starting lineup.
The Jr. Bills had a nice sur-prise waiting for them when they came out of the locker: CBC ju-nior big men Jordan Barnett and Ray Doby, both of whom have been scouted by Division I coach-
es this season, sat out the first half of the game.
Led by sophomore Hunter Schmidt, SLUH took immediate advantage of the Cadets’ handi-cap. In the first quarter, Schmidt scored six points and grabbed seven rebounds as SLUH jumped out to a 13-7 lead. Schmidt regis-tered a double-double, finishing the game with 15 points and 14 rebounds. He also shot a perfect seven for seven from the floor.
“(The win) just shows that the work that my teammates and I
“(Keady) speaks specifi-cally from a Catholic perspec-tive ... about just wages, the dig-nity of work, and this notion that even though I’ll never know this worker in Indonesia, we are con-nected to and even responsible for each other,” said Garavaglia. Over the last few years, there has been an effort directed by Pax Christi, to draw the atten-tion of the SLUH community to the reality of sweatshop labor and the fair trade movement. Pax Christi hopes that Ke-ady’s presentation will draw even more attention to these causes. “My ultimate goal is not only to raise awareness but also to change some of the practices that we have at SLU High as far as the apparel that we buy for faculty, Student Council, and maybe even the athletic department,” said Ga-ravaglia.
put in at practice is finally coming through,” Schmidt said. “Nothing I did was really that special, but it was a good night.”
“Hunter’s rounding out into kind of being our emotional and physical leader,” head coach Er-win Claggett said. “He’s playing well—he’s probably playing better than anybody on the team right now.”
The Jr. Bills took the momen-tum and a 23-13 lead into half-time.
Cadets march to the drum of Jr. Bills for first time since ’07
Keady to talk about Nike sweat shops
photo | Patrick Enderle
SLUH’s student section pours out onto the court in celebration of the Jr. Bills’ long-awaited victory over CBC. SLUH won 56-48 on Senior Night.
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Honduras Project, Our Little Haven
chosen as charities
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night ...
Thursday classes were canceled at schools around the St. Louis area, and St. Louis U. High was no exception. The hardy staff of the SLUH Prep News nevertheless snuck into school ahead of the on-coming storm and hashed out this week’s abbreviated edition. The paper was sent to the printers by lunch, allowing those involved to escape safely.
photo | Ben Banet
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NEWS
BY Leo HeinzREPORTER
After beginning the season 2-0, the ChessBills stumbled
through the remainder of the sea-son and finished 2-6-1. Now, as the playoffs begin for the other teams, they are already planning for next season.
The chess team finished its season with a 25-5 loss to Clay-ton last Tuesday and a 15-15 tie last Wednesday against Belleville East.
Chess club moderator Jim Gioia believes absences ultimately decided the outcomes of these two matches.
“If a few (more) people could have been there, I think the out-come could have been different,” said Gioia. “I think the people who were there played well. They did a good job. Clayton is a very good team.”
Junior Alvaro Gudiswitz said of the final match against Bel-leville East, “It was a good ending. A lot of potential. It didn’t end as well as we wanted, but it wasn’t that bad.”
Freshman Matthew Fink, who played his first match against Belleville East, won his match. Sophomore Conner Brinkmann and freshman Sergio Goodwin also won their matches.
“(Fink) did well,” said Gioia. “He’s really patient. It’s really en-
couraging to see someone that young and that patient.”
In his second year as mod-erator of the chess team, Gioia said that the team experienced some of the same problems last year: many key players missed matches because of other activi-ties and commitments. Gioia has been thinking about some type of solution or policy to avoid this for next season.
Gioia said, “I need to sit down with the seniors and work something out with them and say, ‘What do want to make of this?’ What level of commitment should we be asking for of everyone?’”
Gioia hopes to reach some type of resolution before the start of the season next fall. While he wants to work something out, he made sure it was clear that he understands how various players had different commitments this season.
“They all had a different level of commitment to chess. The guys who were committed throughout the year are very good chess play-ers. But we also had some very good players who were on the team early on, but for whatever reason were not with the team in the end. … That’s the biggest difference maker,” said Gioia. “I think if we had the same core of five players for the whole sea-son we’d be in the playoffs at this
point. The guys who were there did a good job.”
Looking ahead to next year, three senior ChessBills will be leaving: Chris Favier, Nick Hun-saker, and Joe Kreienkamp. How-ever, most of the team will remain intact. The ChessBills will be most likely led by Gudiswitz and fellow junior John Esswein.
“I think we’re essentially a playoff team,” said Fink. “Now, we have experience. With Alvaro leading us, I think we’ll be pretty good. What we do need to work on is our endgame, though. I was watching Alvaro’s match and he ended up losing it because of a move he made at the very end. We need to practice our routine of openings and endings.”
“It’s a little bit hard to predict because I don’t know what kind of players we have coming in as freshmen,” said Gioia. “We could be decent. If our seniors John Es-swein and Alvaro Gudiswtiz are committed, and younger talented guys continue to improve, we could be pretty good.”
If the ChessBills are commit-ted next year, they could poten-tially be a playoff team.
Goodwin said about next season, “I think we’ll get better. Maybe we’ll even get some good new freshmen.”
BY Keith Thomas reporter
The St. Louis U. High varsity and junior varsity Scholar
Bowl teams competed at the Washington University High School Academic Challenge last Saturday along with opponents from all across the country. The tournament featured teams from places like Chicago, Atlanta, and Maryland. SLUH placed second in the preliminary rounds with a record of 5-1, good for entry into Championship A bracket, the top at the event.
SLUH defeated Webster Groves, Oakville’s B-Team, Brookfield, Ransom Everglades’ C-Team, and Clayton, the last big win according to coach Frank Corley. The team’s only loss came at the hands of Detroit Catholic Central. Seniors Kieran Connolly and Matt Rechtien led the way along with junior Adam Thorp.
SLUH lost its first two match-es to Chattahoochee High School (Ga.) and Parkway West. The team won its final game against Priory 340-230.
Ladue A won the tournament against Detroit Catholic Central. Eventually, SLUH would end up placing sixth.
“Our strengths are history, literature, geography, and politics. We are strong in math but not nearly as strong as with the other topics,” Rechtien said. “We can hold our own with science, but we were without our arts and music guru on Saturday. We performed
as well as we could have. The oth-er teams at the tournament were really strong teams and we were not at full strength because some guys were out of town and they put a cap of the number of players we could have.”
Connolly and Thorp placed individually in the competition. Connolly placed fourth; Thorp placed tenth.
“We were up against nation-al teams, and . . . that’s really an exceptional performance for us because we usually have one guy place well, and not two,” Corley said.
“It’s nice to know that I could land an individual score,” Con-nolly added.
The team also helped run and staff the inaugural Ground-hog Day Scholar Bowl Classic, hosted at SLUH. SLUH did not participate in the actual matches, but participated as scorekeep-ers or readers for the event. The event provided competi-tion for Scholar Bowl teams throughout the state. The event also served as a fundraiser for the Scholar Bowl team’s travels. “We have it because we want to keep our name out there in the Scholar Bowl world,” Rechtien added.
The team’s next competi-tion will be at the Jefferson City Helias Tournament on Saturday. “We’ve done well in the past and should go down wanting to win,” Corley said.
BY john webbEDITOR IN CHIEF
I have a strange confession to make: I’ve never eaten in the
Si Commons. Whether it’s partly cloudy and in the mid-70s or snow flurries with sub-zero wind-chill, I always eat lunch outside
In school, I’m corralled by classrooms and desks, teachers and quizzes. At night, I’m trapped by calculus and chemistry, extra-curricular responsibilities and rush hour traffic. Throughout my four years of high school, I haven’t often felt that I’ve had time to be outside. Even if school isn’t nag-ging, I’m distracted by Japanese grammar or Netflix-streamable movies or NCAA basketball games.
At lunch, though, I can be free. Looking out toward the up-per field and past the Science
NotebookDoritos on your gloves: Why I eat outside all year long
Center dome at the empty sky, my mind finds a moment of peace, a special, unique time of reflection. Every day.
It began a few weeks into freshman year. After deciding that expensive, processed cafete-ria food and meat-packing-plant-overcrowding at tables were not for me, I headed for the sun. Up-perclassmen often forget the lone-liness and vulnerability of the first month or so of freshman year, felt most poignantly at lunch. The cramped cafeteria tables com-pounded that social awkward-ness. Outside and unbothered by table restrictions, I could talk with anyone and quickly found a regular group.
Somewhere along the line, someone asked, “How long do you think we’ll last outside?”
The first year, I didn’t last
very long, ducking into the halls sometime in late September. I spent a few weeks in the warm but crowded band hallway before rejoining the few surviving mem-bers of the gang who had to resort to eating Doritos with gloves to protect their skin from the chill-ing wind.
At first it was a celebration of high school independence. It distanced me from a grade school world in which the most im-portant decisions were made by powerful adults. My wind-weary face became a symbol of my own power.
As time and winters have passed by, though, I’ve realized that eating lunch outside is a cel-ebration of adventure and of my vulnerability. The camaraderie keeps me going, but there’s cama-raderie on the inside too.
Outside you have to submit yourself to the cold weather and become aware of your own limita-tions. For 15 minutes or 20 min-utes or however long I can stand to be outside, I have to be aware of the weather and of the world around me. I have to be aware of the cold blowing in my face and the glaring sunlight, of a world that SLUH’s mortar and my car windshield normally protect me from.
Most of the time I don’t pay any attention to the weather. I even claim weather-watching is for chumps and those with noth-ing better to do. But for those few minutes I have to submit myself to the weather, be it sophomore year’s Snowmageddon, four-snow-day winter or last year’s paltry, I-didn’t-break-out-my-Pa-tagonia-jacket one.
It’s adventurous. It’s foolish. It’s even shallow machismo. And yet I still have fun doing it. While I am amazed by humanity’s seem-ingly infinite capacity for love, I am equally fascinated by the fool-ish or self-destructive choices we make. By eating lunch outside in the freezing weather, I come most closely in contact with my illogi-cal desires. It fascinates me.
Most of the day, we find what we expect. It’s only when I head outside that I feel I get a fresh per-spective—a fresh lens—to use the rest of the day.
Feel free to join me outside when it warms up, but just know that crisp spring sunlight isn’t the same without the storied winter before it.
In season plagued by absences, ChessBills tie to end the season
Sophomore Conner Brinkmann surveys the board against his Clayton opponent.
Scholar Bowl 6th at Wash. U. with national competitionphoto | Joe Kreienkamp
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchant-ment, then where is it to be found?”
—J.B. Priestley, 1928
Quote of the Week
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SPORTS
BY Mar LonswayREPORTER
State proved to be a struggle for the Jr. Bills’ wrestling
squad. The months of preparation prior to the championship were not enough for the Wrastlebills. Heading to Columbia with de-termination and high goals, the Jr. Bills were thwarted early in the tournament.
After senior captain Sam Wilhelm was forced to relinquish his chance at wrestling in the State championship due to illness, the Jr. Bills had three remaining qualifiers for State. All had placed fourth at Districts, so the odds were stacked up against SLUH’s squad. To reward the first place qualifiers in each district, the first placers of one district wrestled
the fourth place wrestlers of the other district. As a result, all three SLUH wrestlers were immediately matched up to wrestle their first place counterparts in their first matches at State.
The first round for the Jr. Bills was a disaster, as juniors Jim Onder, and Sean Mulligan, and sophomore Max Kavy each fell quickly.
After losing the first match, the wrestlers dropped into the Wrestlebacks, another bracket of wrestlers fighting for the third place title. But each of the Wras-tlebills were quickly eliminated from the third place bracket as well.
Kavy provided some positive insight about the losses at State.
“I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. I got to State and that was my goal. It was good preparation for next year where I plan to place at State,” said Kavy.
Kavy lost in his first round to Devin Cagle, a senior of North-west High School. Cagle’s regular season record was an outstanding 46-6. Cagle, after defeating Kavy in 42 seconds with a pin, went on to take fifth overall.
“He was really good,” said Kavy.
Luck almost took Kavy’s side when he entered the Wrestleback bracket. Facing off against senior Christian Gillespie of Troy high school, Kavy only lost by a one-point margin.
“He beat me 3-2. He kept
stalling a lot and only attempted one takedown,” said Kavy. “I got two escapes—that was my two points—and he got an escape and one takedown, giving him his three points.”
The juniors, Onder and Mul-ligan, didn’t see much light in their duels either. Onder (33-16) first wrestled Alex Shea (47-9) of Hickman High School at 145. Af-ter being pinned in the second pe-riod, Onder was sent to the Wres-tlebacks, where he was matched up against Larry Prade of Francis Howell, who defeated him there.
Mulligan lost to Lawton Benna, a junior at Wentzville Holt High School by a technical fall at 126.
Wilhelm summed up his ex-periences as a SLUH wrestler.
“My whole goal was to place at State—that’s what drove me to work so hard these last four years,” said Wilhelm. “So the fact that I didn’t get to wrestle at State was hard to deal with, but that’s exactly what wrestling has taught me: how to deal with hardships. The spirit of the sport lives on. Work hard. No regrets.”
Assistant coach Sean O’Brien is optimistic about next year.
“We do lose four seniors, but we have three returning State qualifiers and strong underclass-men,” said O’Brien. “It’ll be a strong team that I’m looking for-ward to coaching next year.”
BY Nick KimbleREPORTER
I sat down this week with seniors Mike Cella, Nick Walters, and Ste-phen Lordo, who are linemates on the St. Louis U. High hockey team (22-3-1) to find out about their chemistry both on and off the ice. Nick Kimble: Thanks for join-ing me guys. To start out, is this your first year all on the same line together? The line match-up appears so natural to the fans, but how do you think the chemistry works?
Stephen Lordo: The chem-istry is amazing. We’re all really good friends. We know how each other play and where they’re go-ing to be on the ice.
Nick Walters: Yeah, it is. This is our first year playing together and it just feels right. It’s pass, shoot, score ... wa, la, wa. We’ve got great chemistry, Stephen is the one who forechecks hard and moves the puck to everyone, Mike backchecks like crazy and loves to throw his weight around, and
I just try to do what I can defen-sively, help these guys out wher-ever possible, and put the puck in the net when they give it to me. NK: Okay Great, well, is there a special play you like to run when you get the puck?
SL: No. I think we are good together because there isn’t much structure and we kind of feed off what each other does.
Mike Cella: Yeah, we don’t
have a special play except our line has a thing for behind the back no look passes. Most of the time look-ing for a Wa-La-Wa connection to create a scoring opportunity. NK: I have noticed those; I like the flow. Very carefree. With Nick gone for his club team oc-casionally, how do you two (Cella and Lordo) adjust to another man in your line? One who you aren’t as familiar playing with?
MC: We both feel the same way. The line is not the same when Nick’s not there, it just isn’t, but we have a lot of depth on the team so we have a lot of guys who do a great job filling in for Nick. NK: So Nick, how do you adjust coming and go-ing off this line so often? Is it hard to continually adjust?
NW: Plain and sim-ple. When I’m at my club team I miss these guys. NK: I can see that. Without fur-ther ado; you knew it was com-ing ... They call you “Wa-La-Wa” is that correct? Is it a magic trick or how did that get started?
MC: Wa-La-Wa is the name of our line. Some of the mem-bers of the SLUH community have bestowed upon me the nick-name IAWA. I won’t explain the origin for confidentiality sake…
NW (interrupting): Schol-ars maintain that the translation was lost thousands of years ago. [Laughs]
MC: As I was saying, one of those Wa’s comes from that nickname. The other Wa stems from the the last name of our center-man Nick Walters. The La is comes from the last name of our right winger Stephen Lordo as a few team members called him La for short before this. We like to keep it light on the ice and the line name is just an example of how we do that. NK: Well, is there a particu-lar highlight for the Wa-La-Wa line, thus far, on the sea-son or a particular game?
SL: DeSmet. The Jesuit cup. The tick-tack-toe goals.
NW: O yea, definitely. It’s just classic Wa-La-Wa.
MC: The Jesuit Cup/Senior Night was our first time play-ing together as line and one of our better games. We played a great game with all of our line members having points. The chemistry was there and we played a great game. Since then we’ve been playing well together. NK: Great game to be at as well. Thanks guys you’ve been great. Last question, what is it like being an all-senior line? Do you feel as if your line has a different role on the team?
SL: Well a big part of our strength as a team is we have three lines that can score. And I think we’re expected to score ev-ery game and play the game the right way as a line of all seniors.
MC: Yeah, with all of us be-ing seniors we’re expected to be leaders and put points on the board every game. Also, we rec-ognize that this is our last op-portunity to win a state cham-pionship, so we are focused on that. But at the same time we’re trying to have as much fun as we can and trying to enjoy what time we have left to play together.
NW: Well obviously we’ve got an amazing first line with (seniors) Corey (Quinn), Chase (Berger) and Hoff (junior Chris-tian Hoffmeister), so I think it’s our job to really give the team depth. Our scoring power and energy gives our team a one two punch that most teams can’t han-dle. Being all seniors I think just makes it more special. It’s our last season and all three members of Wa-La-Wa would give anything to win SLUH its first State ring.
The SLU High hockey team faced off in the first round of Semi-finals last night against Lindbergh (check @sluhprepnews on Twitter for updates). The second leg of the seminfinal will be this Saturday at Hardee’s Iceplex in Chesterfield.
Despite four qualifiers, wrestling eliminated early at state
Wa-La-Wa! Talking chemistry with three SLUH hockey linematesphoto | courtesy of Nick Walters
Nick Walters, center, celebrates after a goal.
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Mission week: duct taping Pagano to a wall for the good of humanity
When they came back out for the second half, even though Barnett and Doby entered the game for the Cadets, SLUH continued to control the game. At one point in the third quarter CBC forced consecutive turnovers, but be-fore they could swing the momentum, junior guard Ollie Tettamble wowed the packed student section with a crossover to get around CBC junior Patrick McCaw, another Division I recruit, before driving to the hoop for an and-one. That play rounded out the third quarter with SLUH up 37-25.
CBC scored 23 points in a fast-paced fourth quarter, but their at-tempts weren’t enough to overcome SLUH’s control of the game and freshman Matt Nester’s 19 points on six of eight shooting, including five of six from three-point range. The Jr. Bills stretched their lead to 13 points with less than four minutes to go be-fore finishing out a 56-48 victory that prompted the student section to rush
the court.“It was such a good feeling to see
everyone rush the court, especially against a team like CBC,” Schmidt said. “It kinda shows that everything’s coming together as a team.”
The win was SLUH’s second in the MCC this season after its first on Dec. 4, a 47-45 victory over Chami-nade. CBC and Chaminade finished as MCC co-champs.
“It just feels good getting a con-ference win, period,” Claggett said. “We have a relatively in experienced team, so to just get a couple of con-ference wins over some really good opponents in CB and Chaminade is good for our program in general, and it gives us something to look forward to going forward.”
On Saturday, the Jr. Bills open up single-elimination District play against Ritenour at 1 p.m. at Ladue. Should SLUH win that first round game, the team would play Ladue on Tuesday.
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BY Mitch MackowiakWEB EDITOR
Taking everything literally is gen-erally a bad idea (e.g., when
someone tells you to break a leg). But sometimes it can lead you to unex-pected insight.
My family practices Secret Santa, but we have to handcraft our gifts. This past Christmas after a bout of tortuous brainstorming I decided to bend a quote out of wire. The quote was “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us,” and appeared in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Artistic procrastination forced me to make the whole thing in a day. So I staked out a spot in the basement and manipulated the long 18-gauge steel noodle (an accurate description, since it was as thick as fine angel hair pasta). Because of that each letter took about five minutes. With 51 letters plus spaces and initially not knowing what I was doing, four hours elapsed before it was finished.
I couldn’t multitask since the project occupied both my hands and eyes, so all I could do was ponder the quote, letter by letter. Turns out you can think a whole lot about 51 words. During those four hours I considered Tolkien’s diction, syntax, and the im-plications and possible interpretations of the quote in and out of the context of the scene in which it appeared.
My thumbs and index fingers throbbed for two days. I imagined this as the physical equivalent of Tolkien’s effort to create the quote.
That exercise finally elucidated the concept that good writing is a craft.
I heard versions of that phrase tossed around throughout my English class career and agreed with it, but never thought about it. The word ‘craft’ carried too literal and tangible an as-sociation (in the same vein, I always smile when a teacher tells someone to polish up an essay because I instantly imagine rubbing the essay thoroughly with the cuff of my shirt and handing it right back with a smirk). But when I actually translated it into a literal craft, the idea clicked.
This is the most creative way I have understood something. It was so unexpected it reminded me to search for alternative ways of understanding. Because when I don’t get something after repeated explanations, you can bet it will remain un-understood.
When I tutored kids in math dur-ing Senior Project, I spent ten minutes rewording the definition of a variable in the desperate hope that a student would suddenly get it in some mirac-ulous burst of insight. But she didn’t, because I didn’t use any relatable ex-amples.
So if you do not understand something, attack it from every angle until you do. To do so might take what seems like too much effort, but the cool thing about creative understand-ing is, you not only grasp a person-ally elusive concept but acquire a new teaching method.
Friday, February 22Freshman Retreat
Half Day
Saturday, February 23NIE Province Retreat (through Feb. 26)1pm V Basketball District Tournament vs. Ritenour6pm Alumni Sports Trivia8:30pm Hockey Semifinals vs. Lindbergh
Sunday, February 24CISL Speech Meet @ Incarnate Word8am Father/Son Morning of Recollection1PM Dodgeball Tourney
Monday, February 25First Day of Spring SportsMission Week (through March 1)Faculty Mix-it-Up LunchSLUH colors dress down
Mass
Tuesday, February 26Twin Day Dress Down6pm V Basketball vs. Ladue7pm College Tips from the ProsLunch Special Pulled Pork
Schedule R
Thursday, February 28Lumberjack dress downJazz Fest11am Mix-it-Up LunchLunch Special Chicken Fettucini
Schedule R
Wednesday, February 27Tourist/ Beach attire dress down6:30pm Class of 2017 OrientationLunch Special Deli Day
Schedule R
Friday, March 1Throwback/Mixer Dress Down7pm Mission Week Mixer V Basketball District ChampionshipLunch Special Veggie Lasagna
Mass
Basketball takes down Cadets
Words on the wire, writing as a craft
Notebookphoto | Leo Heinz
Freshman Matt Nester up a shot Friday against CBC
calendar | Jack Kiehl
6:30 in the SI Commons. Friday will be the biggest day
of Mission Week. Once again teachers will have different booths set up with activities like head shaving and, a new addition to Teacher Day, duct-taping theatre teacher Paul Pagano.
“He’ll stand on a chair, and once he’s adhered we’ll remove the chair and he’ll just hang out, stuck to the wall,” said STUCO moderator Laura Dickens.
Friday night will be the second annual Mission Week mixer starting at 7 p.m. Tickets will be sold in advance for $7 and at the door for $10.
“We’re working on ways to keep the line moving faster,” said ju-nior vice president Larry Hoerr.
Each day will also have a different theme for clothing ranging from “Twin Day”, where students are encouraged to dress up like someone else, to beach day and lumberjack day.
This year, instead of buying dress down each day, wristbands will be on sale for eight dollars, granting dress down for the entire week. Dress down for each day will also be available for five dollars on Monday and one dollar for the rest of the week.
“Stickers would fall off and teachers would give students trouble about whether or not they actually paid,” said Dickens. “We’re hoping that this will eliminate some of that.”
Another change to this year’s Mission Week will be the number of charities. Last year, there were four charities, one for each class. This year, the sophomores and seniors will be donating to Little Haven, which helps children that have been victims of abuse and neglect. The charity is run by the parents of senior Peter Hummel.
Freshman and juniors will be donating to the Centro San Yves Nu-trition Center in Honduras. STUCO hopes to raise $10,000 for each charity
as opposed to $5,000 from last year. “The charities are closer to
SLUH, so we hope the students will respond more,” said senior class vice president Andrew Nguyen.
Another addition to this Mis-sion Week is in the apparel that STU-CO has sold over the past few weeks. A new Mission Week hat was sold in ad-dition to the usual shirts, sweat pants, and sweat shirts, which were all fair trade.
“We’re working with different clubs like Pax Christi and Sustainabil-ity to make sure everything is manu-factured sweatshop-free,” said Hoerr.
STUCO hopes that Mission Week will once again be a success by getting everyone involved, including the teachers.
“With Spirit Week, it’s defi-nitely fun, but the activities are geared to the student body,” said Dickens. “With Mission Week, everybody gets involved.”
